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Seventh Year
GryffindorBeing Chased by Singing Dwarves with Valentines

Join Date

Aug 2010

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Behind my piano

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To be honest, I don't think so. I can't really put to words exactly why, but I think that once you die, your brain stops working normally, plus I don't think that you could use Legillemency on a dead person. I think you sort of need a sense of who you are to actually have long term memories, because your brain only stores what is pertinant for you and your survival, and once your dead, there's like no need for memories. I don't even know if this post makes sense....

Summary:
No, I don't think that you could retrieve a memory from a dead person.

I think the memories are supposed to be like a part of a person's soul that vanishes/gos to King's Cross/whatever you please when they die. Remember, Dumbledore says he managed to take that memory from Morfin before he died. I think if memories could be taken after death, there would be no anonymous murders, as well as no knowlege lost with death, and that all seems very implausible to me.

For your fic, Bethan, maybe you could have them found in a bottle in the person's pocket or something? It's hard to know, though, without knowing your plot.